冠毛

Hector Douglas, a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher, said he made the discovery in the feathers of the crested auklet after applying a little scientific intuition and sacrificing some of his own blood.

据美联社8月3日报道，阿拉斯加费尔班克斯大学的研究员赫克托·道格拉斯表示，他在冠毛小海雀的羽毛上发现了这种驱蚊物质。

Clues to the crested auklet's unique ability to repel mosquitoes and pests like ticks and lice was apparent the first time Douglas encountered the creature, one of four auklet species in Alaska.

第一次和冠毛小海雀（阿拉斯加4种小海雀之一）相遇时，它们这种能够驱退蚊子、虱子等害虫的独一无二的本领就已经明显地展露出来。

But having bristly hairs on edges of leaf stalks; mountainous regions of western America.

叶柄边缘有冠毛；长在美国西部山区。

The sulphur-crested cockatoo's claim to stardom is his ability to perform what looks decidedly like dancing (to the Backstreet Boys' hit,"Everybody").

这只长有黄色冠毛的风头鹦鹉凭借一段酷似舞蹈的表演（伴奏音乐是后街男孩的大热曲目《Eeverybody》）而爆红。

The 11-year-old cockatoo lifts his legs, squawks and bobs his head, flashing his bright yellow crest to the beat of the boy band's hit song Everybody (Backstreet's Back). He even takes a bow at the end of the 1997 pop song.

这只十一岁大的公鹦鹉边抬腿边摇头大叫，晃动鲜黄色的冠毛跟著这个男孩团体的畅销曲《新好男孩回来了》打拍子，甚至还会在这首一九九七年的流行曲唱完时鞠躬。

A cloud of fine, dry particles.coarse herbs with whitish discoid flower heads and silky pappus.

一个粗糙的草本属，白色盘状的头状花序，具绢毛状的冠毛。

Soft and fair goes far.coarse herbs with whitish discoid flower heads and silky pappus.

一个粗糙的草本属，白色盘状的头状花序，具绢毛状的冠毛。

Other dogs in the running were the miniature schnauzer, bichon frise, and Chinese crested.

参与评选的其它犬种包括迷你雪纳瑞、卷毛狮子犬和中国冠毛犬。

Small woolly perennial herbs having small whitish discoid flowers surrounded by a ring of club-shaped bristles.

一个具绵毛的多年生小型草本属，具小白色盘状花的头状花序，有棒状刚毛形成的冠毛。

Genus of large crested guans.

大的有冠毛的冠雉的一属。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失